Evil, Evil Everywhere (was Re: [oclug] Test Shows 99.99% of

[james]

Francis Pinteric wrote:
> 
> --- bbarnett at L8R.net wrote:
> > Realistically, students should be graduating with HTML, js, php,
> > and perl
> > experience above all else.  These are the most widely used
> > languages of the day
> > (let's not talk about asp, it pains me that it exists).
> 
> You must be kidding. In any case it isn't about the language at all
> but the nature of programming. As for the languages that a student
> should learn: C/C++, Unix shell programming, and yacc/lex.

I agree with this.
If you can learn C then you can pick up most other languages
especially the scripting ones which all seem to be loosely 
based on C. C++ will also give you a nice OO programming 
background and the Unix shell programming can help to 
understand how to interact with the os. 
I assume yacc/lex is some sort of prepossesor/lexical 
analyzer right? I've never used it exactly before but have 
been working with Bison lately so I can appreciate how 
learning it before hand would've been useful... lol!

ttyl,
james